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Saturday, 14 April 2018

Special Friend Birthday

Hello...meet today's card.

I am playing with some new stamps from Penny Black.

My first time playing with this wonderful stamp called Blossom Branch and I love it.

To create my card, I placed the stamp inside my Misti and coloured using my Memento and my Tombow markers directly onto my stamp. I sprayed with water then pressed onto my paper. I repeated that process, adding more colour where I wanted it to look like shading. My Misti is an invaluable tool for using this kind of technique on a card.

After that was dry, I stamped the sentiment from the PB set called Grateful Heart using black Memento ink and clear embossed it to help make it pop. I stamped it a bit over the inked image to help pull the whole design together.

When I was done, I looked at my card front thinking that it needed something more, so using a fine line marker, I added little dashed lines around the flower centers and splattered with black ink. So much better as the black seemed to be what it needed to help ground it all.

I recently bought this stamp and haven't had a chance to use it yet. I LOVE your blue flowers and the highlights you added to the centers! That really makes these flowers pop beautifully! Makes me want to go ink mine up!

Hi Karen, spotted this beautiful PB card on Facebook, and zipped over to say how much I love it. Wonderful deep colors with the tombows and someone is going to be so happy to receive this beauty on a birthday. TFS

Another beauty, Karen! Your coloring is fabulous, as always. I can look at your cards over and over. Love your style. The blue really looks so pretty on this bouquet, and, of course, the verse sets it off beautifully! Thanks for joining us at Penny Black Saturday Challenge! Hugs,lynda joy